Wagon-hoisting apparatus



(No Model.)

J. E. BIRD.

WAGON HOISTING APPARATUS. No. 313,808; Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

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JAMES E. BIRD, OF LA MONTE, MISSOURI.

WAGON-HOISTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,803, dated March10, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JAMES E. BIRD, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at La Monte, in the county of Pettis and State ofMissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in\Vagon-Hoisting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improved hoist, more especially adapted for countryuse, and embraces the following novel features: A leverbeam working uponthe top of a pivot-standard, and having on its burden end anintercrossing bar, to each end of which is mid-hung. a transverseswing-bar, to the ends also of each of which are attached a pair ofpendulous rods, which have their lower ends bent into hookeyes, in andbetween which knotted bearinglashers are end-caught and swung; also, onthe power end of said leverbeam a fixed pulley, and on the counter endan extension-bar, to the outer end of which is fastened a regulativerope; also the beanrstandard, having its foot cut into a long and squaretenon, thelower portion of which is tapered to a blunt point, andextends for a suitable distance below the bottom of the standardsleeper,into which said foot is stepped and mortised; and, finally, asteadying-post is mortised into the end of said sleeper,directly belowthe outer end of said extension-bar, and into the other end of saidsleeper there is set a counter fixed pulley, through sheave of which,together with that of the pulley overhead, the lever-beam-tackle fall isrove, all of which and their purposes are hereinafter more fullydescribed, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which likeletters designate identical parts of my invention in the differentfigures, respectively.

Figure 1 is a perspective elevation of my device, showing the severalparts of the same in normal position and ready for use; and Fig. 2 is anend section of the lever-beam, showing the intercrossing bar, itstransverse swing-bars in section, and sectional portions of thebearing-lashers.

The letter A represents the lever-beam, and B the sleeper, into whichthe beam-standard P and the steadyiug-post O are respectively Imortised. Said beam is made of suitable timber of proper size andlength, and squared. It is fitly mortised, so as to tenon-pivot upon thetop of the standard P, and make the power-conuective arm of thelever-beam normally overbalance the burden arm, together with itselemental parts, as shown. This may be done either by making the poweiarm consid erably longer than the other arm, or by counter-weights. Theburden-arm of said leverbeam is furnished with an intercrossing bar, (1,which is made of suitable timber, cut square, flush-jointed at themiddle into and squarely across the beam end, as shown, and has both ofits ends extended and braced squarely outward, so as to suitablysuspend, at a proper distance apart, a pair of transverse swingbars, f,to the ends of each of which are suitably coupled the pendulous rods g,which in their turn having their lower ends bent into the hook-eyes h,serve to hold in suspension, as shown, the knot-catching lashers Z,together with any burden which may be adjusted and triced upon them. Thestandardpost 1, upon which said lever-beam is pivoted, is acorrespondingly-squared piece of timber of suitable size and length, andfurnished at the top with the pivot-tenon 15, whereby the standard andbeam are pivot-jointed, and at the foot with a stepping-tenon, t, bywhich the standard is mortised and vertically supported above thesleeper B, while it is equally supported below said sleeper by thetapering elongation of said foot-tenon, as shown, being thrust into asuitable post-hole made in the ground directly under saidstandard-mortise.

The sleeper B, into which the post 1? is I stepped and chieflysupported, is a suitable piece of ground-timber cut square, of suitablesize and length, and is suitably located either upon the ground, in theflooring, or wagonway of a barn or other storage-house of a farm, orsufficiently below the surface of said wagonway to protect the materialof said sleeper or sill from harm or wear. The post 0 is inortised alsointo said sleeper and counterbraced, as shown, in a vertical position,and directly below the end-or the outer end of the extension-bar nof thelever-beam A, which purposely gives additional steadiness to bothstandard and sleeper. Said BXtQdJSlOlLbiLI is suitably dovetailedendwise into the burden as shown, to be readily end of the lever-beam,

adjusted in place, and provided with a suitable ring-bolt, to which issecured the upper end of the regulative rope T, which serves to lower orloosen the normally overweighted end of said beam, and to make fast thesame, as shown, to a cleat suitably fixed upon said hitching-post.

In order to suitably and co operatively Work said lever-beam, so as toraise any Weight or burden lashed between the hanging rods 9, a fittingtackle is provided, which consists of a fall rove through the sheaves ofa pair of fixed pulleys, p and 10, respectively counterplaced, the onein the power-connective end of the lever-beam, and the otherdirectly'be-- low in the end of the standard-sill.

The operation of my device is as follows: WVhenever or wherevernecessary or desirable to be intermittingly raising any unhandy burden-for instance, an overweighty wagon body, or a load of timber-fromits carrier or running-gear,saidgear is run under the burden-arm of thelever-beam A, the counterpendulous rods 9 are swung outside said body orload, the lashers Z suitably passed underneath the same and caught byany of the said latchet-knots in their respective hook-eyes h.

Then loosen the rope r and haul upon the aforesaid tackle-fall of thepulleys p and p, when, said burden having been raised the desireddistance, the carrier can be run out, leaving the burden suspended uponsaid lashers. \rVhenever desirable to lower said burden upon its own oranother carrier, the reverse order of the hoist will be practiced. Thusthe above-described machine supplies a very convenient, economical, andeffective hoist in any of the oftentimes-required processes similar tothose above stated, and in p aces remote from the means usuallyobtainable in such cases. Again, in order to give greater conveniencyand practical effectiveness to said hoist, a duplicate of the aforesaidsuspensory portion of the same may be counter-adjusted upon thepower-arm of the lever-bean1,which will allow the lifting-tackle to bemore easily worked by merely balancing the counterburden weights, andwill double the capacity of the above-described mechanism, withoutchanging or limiting the characteristic features or elements of myinvention. Therefore,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with the lever A, the standard P, and the sill B, ofthe intercrossing and suspensory bar d, supplied with the swing-bars. f,the pendulous and hook-eyed rods and the knotted lashers Z, and made adjustably cooperative with the lifting-tackle p and p, and thecounter-working rope 1*, substantially as and for the fied.

2. The combination of the lever-beam A with the standard P, having thepivot-tenon t and the supporting-tenon t, and with the sill B, havingthe counter-braced post O, substantially as and for the purposes hereinspecifled.

3. The combination, with the intercrossing and suspensory bar d upon thelever-beam A, of the suspended swing-bars f, the pendulous and hook-eyedrods 9, and the knot-catching lashers l, substantially as and for thepurposes herein specified.

4. The combination, with the lever A, the pivot-standard P, and the sillB, of the lifting tackle p andp, and the counter-working rope I r,substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES E. BIRD.

Witnesses:

WM. L. OHIPLEY, A. A. OoLLINs.

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